On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:56:07 +0100, Stefan Krah wrote: > How about: > > | The M4 Project is an effort to break 3 original Enigma messages > | with the help of distributed computing. The signals were intercepted > | in the North Atlantic in 1942 and are believed to be unbroken. > | Ralph Erskine has presented the intercepts in a <link>letter</link> to > | the journal Cryptologia.
That looks good to me. As a finishing touch, how about a link to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine>. > > You could tell more about how it works. What exactly are the clients > > doing? What will the server do with the collected information? > > I tried to explain it in the 'Method' section, but that is a little > abstract. The general problem is, I thought it would be better to > keep all information as brief as possible so as not to lose the > reader's attention. Could be the wrong approach. I have to think > a little about that section. I understand your dilemma. However, on the page you use quite some terminology the average reader (me included) likely doesn't understand. IMO, be a little less brief. > > Some background information about the Enigma messages would be nice, > > too. > > Ok, that's another point where I have to think how much to leave > out. The full information is in Erskine's letter if you follow > the link. In that letter, you have to follow the link "Gillogly's > response", where Enigma researcher Weierud gives some reassuring > comments about the authenticity of the messages. It's a bit tricky > to sum all that up. Possibly I'll leave it at the "intercepted in..." > version above. Yes, that would be sufficient. > > And perhaps you could explain the results of "break 5", mentioned on your > > site. > But should this go on the intro page? No, not really. I was just curious. Sorry about the confusion. > Does any current Unix system have logger, is it usually in the user's > PATH (Solaris, anyone?), and is the user always allowed to use it? > I've to check those things out. It would be nasty if the script > chokes on that. According to its manual, logger is part of the POSIX specification, so I assume every serious UNIX system will have it. And it usually resides in /bin or /usr/bin as far as I know. But it isn't a bad idea to do some checks for logger anyway. Tim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
